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This year ESET’s top security experts from around the world – Stephen Cobb, Cameron Camp, Aryeh Goretsky, David Harley, Robert Lipovsky and Sebastian Bortnik – once again compiled a list of predictions about the threatscape developmenst for 2012.

ESET, the leader in proactive protection against cyber-threats, announces the release of ESET Mail Security for IBM Lotus Domino BETA. The Beta testing will take place for a period of at least two months.

ESET Tops the List with the Least Amount of System Impact.
ESET announces that it has secured its fourth “Advanced+” award in performance testing from AV-Comparatives, an independent research organization. The latest test measured the impact on system performance of 20 antivirus products. In addition to receiving the highest possible number of “Advanced+” awards in performance testing, ESET has received more “Advanced+” awards in retrospective tests than any other vendor, which is given to products that have excellent heuristic detection rates and low false positives.

November Malware Threats: INF/Autorun Stays on the Top.
The holiday season is here and ESET has put together golden tips for safer holiday shopping online. Even more holiday shopping will happen online this year than last and that means more scammers will be looking to do some shopping of their own, possibly at your expense. This might involve using your credit card and bank account to fund their gift-buying, or perhaps capturing and selling your personal information for some extra holiday cash. Here are some of the tips that Cameron Camp, Stephen Cobb and other ESET researchers have put together to help savvy cyber-shoppers avoid getting scammed while hunting for the best holiday deals online.

ESET announces that its, ESET NOD32 Antivirus was named the bronze medal winner of the 2011 “Editors’ Best” and “Community Choice” Awards in the Antivirus/Anti-Malware category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro magazine.

ESET, the leader in proactive protection against cyber-threats, has released its flagship product for the mobile Android platform ESET Mobile Security. With ESET Mobile Security, the company offers advanced protection for three operating systems including Symbian, Windows Mobile and Android. ESET Mobile Security for Android is available for download from the company’s website, ESET.com.

ESET, the leader in proactive protection against cyber-threats, is competing among dozens of top European companies in the 2011 HSBC European Business Awards. In the first stage, ESET has been selected as Slovakia’s country finalist and later has received Ruban d’Honneur as one of the top ten businesses in the UK Trade & Investment category for innovation.

ESET, the leader in proactive protection against cyber-threats, today announces the release of new generation of its security solutions for Linux Servers. On top of new features, ESET Mail Security adds support for Novell GroupWise collaborative software.

ESET, the leader in proactive protection against cyber-threats, has been awarded the prestigious “VB100“ award from Virus Bulletin - UK’s independent testing antivirus authority. The latest award is ESET’s 70th, adding to its long track record of great results in this testing. ESET NOD32 Antivirus holds the world record of VB100 Awards of all security solution vendors.

Last month, ESET’s research team has discovered a new threat, which was originally designed for Linux, that now can infect Mac OS X. This is a modification of Linux code originally called Linux/Tsunami and currently detected as OSX/Tsunami.A. In more malware news, the removable media oldtimers like INF/Autorun and Win32/Conficker still appear on top spots both in Europe and globally. However, backdoor Dorkbot has moved up to number two spot worldwide with a 3.12% infection rate. Statistics are based on ESET Live Grid data, cloud-based reputation technology that utilizes malware related data from users of ESET solutions worldwide.